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Antique Ichthyology Print, Cusk Fish (Le Brosme) from Gaimard Voyage, 1842
£575 ($765, €680)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1842
- Size
- 14 × 21.7 in (35.5 × 55 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Condition report: Fine impression with original hand coloring. Sheet with wide margins, showing scattered foxing and spots, primarily in the outer areas, not affecting the clarity of the central image. Paper remains strong, plate mark visible.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Fish and shells
- Reference
- f_46525782
The cusk (Brosme brosme), a cod-family fish of the cold North Atlantic, an original hand-colored plate from Paul Gaimard's Voyage en Islande et au Groenland, published in Paris in 1842. The sheet is lettered "Le Brosme", with the Linnaean name and "(Islande)" beneath the central figure, and the zoology section heading above.
The fish is shown in full profile, shaded from dark brown along the back and the long fins to a pale underside, with a barbel hanging from the chin. Two outline studies of the head lie below it, one with the mouth open to show the teeth and the other showing the bones of the skull.
Gaimard's expedition of 1835 was sent to look for the lost Arctic expedition of Jean de Blosseville and became a broad survey of Iceland and Greenland. The fish plates, drawn by Louis Bévalet and printed with J. Bernard, record the marine species on which the fishing communities of the north depended.
